#Resilience

3 books tagged with resilience, sorted by rating.

Educated

by Tara Westover

5/5

Memoir & Biography Self-Help & Personal Growth

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

5/5

Psychology & Behavioral Science Memoir & Biography

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

4/5

Memoir & Biography

Educated

by Tara Westover

5/5

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University — while she tried to reconcile her new world with the one she left behind.

Memoir & Biography Self-Help & Personal Growth

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

5/5

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it and find meaning in it.

Psychology & Behavioral Science Memoir & Biography Self-Help & Personal Growth

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

4/5

Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose dysfunction was matched only by their brilliance and charisma. Her memoir recounts a childhood of constant upheaval — from desert towns to Appalachian poverty to the streets of New York City — told with astonishing lack of self-pity.

Memoir & Biography